Jerry2kone's Collection
 

Ok so I finally took the plunge and got a photbuket account and now I am ready to post up some photos of my stuff. I know there are a lot of guys out there with some pretty incredible R/C gear to show off and I am not here to compete with anyone. I got started in this hobby like 3 years ago when my dear wife gave me a stock E-Maxx for my birthday knowing that I have wanted to do R/C most of my life, but just could not afford to put the time or the money into it. Well that started the addiction and three years later I am into this hobby in a big way (15 to $20K) for trucks, tools, batteries, chargers, controller, and parts, and only Maxx's up to now. I have asperations to do other vehicles, but until I am satisfied with my Maxx collection this is it for now. I have 4 metal Maxx trucks all about 75% completed. I now have the materials to complete them all, and just have to find the time to get busy. I just finished building my shop here in Korea and my two boys and I are very excited about working together building, learning, and having fun doing what we all love to do. Race, Bash, build, repair, and learn some more.

These pics are only a week or so old, and already the trucks have been changed due to more upgrades. The FLM & UE trucks both weigh right about 7 to 8 lbs without batteries on board according to our digital scale. I am building the FLM truck to be the toughest thing around, and I plan on trying out some awesome power for it. The UE Lightning will be my high speed project with a double monoblock and custom drive shafts. I am also thinking about getting one of the Plettenberg Bolidos for it. That waill be some real fun. Everything in these babies is built to last and no plastic toys for me. So here they are.

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I've been waiting Jerry! Thank you for sharing! Get that schulze running!

I Know I Know.
 

Yea I know I still have a lot of work to do. I look forward to running the Schulz with the Big max that you guys sold to me. I have all kinds of things to try out with these. Sorry for the long wait on the pics.

Just glad to hear you and the boys are doing well. Those boys need some pleasant distractions from life, and I think you found it with r/c!

Nice collection Jerry.

You need to get a set of racerx or EXT suspension for that lightning though :lol::intello::intello::na:. I have a set if you're interested. I just sold my 2nd set of towered VBS with gears last week :neutral::neutral:.

Thinking.
 

Thanks George, I will have to think about that offer. I do have the UE wide-track suspension set on there now. I love the way the racer/X sets look, but it just adds adjustment complications that aren't really needed IMO. Shoot me a PM price for what you want for them anyway and I will think it over. So do you still have another towered VBS set for sale?? I may be interested if you do. Although I think that the RCM/FLM hybrid bulks pretty much do the trick. I put the lightning hardened gears inside and I use the hardened heavy duty cups/outdrives as well. I also have a center diff setup that I am playing with that I am considering using the torsen diff on, and I have a couple steel spurs coming in for that.

I really do like the UE gear, but it is too bad that Robin does not see fit to keep replacement parts available for us. It is a dammed shame that UE has turned it's back on the R/C community. I also just installed a double monoblock this evening, because I want to set the Lightning up for some high speed fun. I have a few ideas but I am not really sure just yet what kind of power plant I will end up putting into it. I am still trying to engineer this thing for durability right now. I don't want to end up running it a few times and have things breaking on me every time out. I do love working on these things. It is a blast for me just to tinker with them and work on improving them. Thanks George.

Very nice collection. I have to ask though- why are all the rear tires mounted backwards on your trucks?

working.
 

I noticed that you try to catch everyone with that one. I take them on and off so much that most of the time I am not looking at that right now. Once I am ready to start running them I will pay more attention to that fact. It just is not important at the moment. I have the new Axial beadlock wheels setup for them anyway. I just got a home made wheel balancer setup and I already have one set totally done with Mulcher tires installed. Next week I will have a second set done with 40 series Roadrage-2 tires on them.

Looks good Jerry. I am a bit jealous, as your maxx collection is nicer than mine...

I have no idea why I like maxx trucks as much as I do, but who cares! I currently have 2 BPP torpedo chassis, 1 BPP racebomb, a mostly stock 3905, the 6x6 3906 based truck, and a tube buggy that needs work. None have all that al that you have though. I prefer plastic parts (mostly because I am cheap! HAHA) and have a bunch of stuff laying around from trades and hobby shop closings. Long live the maxx truck!!!!

wow! Those trucks look great Jerry.

Yup, that's quite an impressive collection to say the least.

Now take them off the hanger's, I promise you wont wrinkle them, and get some proper pic's. :whistle:

I'm sure the "drool factor" would at least double !!!!

They sure are sex-zeeee...........:surprised:

don't know if you wanna know this, but you said you were building them to make them durable, so...... That blue chassis is a weak link. If you've got all the parts for it, it's made for four batteries, but even with two mine got bent to all hell. It's a pretty setup, but there simply isn't enough material to hold the weight of the batteries hanging on the side. I learned that the hard way so you don't have to! I used mine with dual evx's and dual 970's, it looked good till it bent. I was going to copy the top plate and "double it up" but never got around to it. Just an fyi. -Harold p.s.- a link to a durable blue chassis! http://www.eastendmachining.com/emaxxchassis.html

Nice trucks Jerry. Looks like you've spare'd no expense there. Why have you retained the two speed tranny's on all of them? With brushless, you dont need the 1st gear, and you loose the weight of the addtitional tranny stuff and servo.

Sweet Maxx collection Jerry!

Thanks Alot.
 

Thank you all for your thoughts. Hey linc. Yea I like the Maxx for some odd reason as well. To me it is a simple setup and durable if you set it up right.

Yea Harold, yea I know that one is kind of whimpy. That is why it belongs to one of the boys now. The two beefy ones are what I was talking about. The RCM and UE chassis ones are my baby's. Thank you for that link though, because I will probably guy one of those and replace the Dynamite chassis.

Thank you Magman

Hey there Thiessen. Thank you and yes I know the two speed is not really needed, but I just love the machine work with the tranny case and the metal gears. I cannot help myself when I see the CNC machining that goes into these trucks.

Thank you RCShocker. I do work on them every chance I get, and once I make some progress I will take better pics of them and repost them up for comments. I still have so much work to get done. It has taken a lot of time to move from Europe to Korea, and then to get the house settled, and finally to build this shop for the boys and I.

Hey RSChoi are you still coming over this way? Thank you for your thorughts as well.